I LOVE YOU is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English with introduction by Dr. Mostapha Helwe

Messages

 

The messages no longer arrive

With a straight font

How can I read them with letters

Almost legible and fleeting?

I thought my computer was honourable

That it wouldn't bring anything bad...

And the precious emails

Their purpose was to cultivate virtue

Perhaps luck is against me

Or have substitutes stolen my love?

I was never unhappy

I was among the first

So why has my love become

An obstacle without any other obstacle?!

And why does my writing

Shatter like liquids?!

You didn't betray me... no, by God!

It was the means that betrayed me.

She was the voice, and we were

above the dreams of tribes.

She never said "my love,"

but the heart spoke.

So that the word might return as a sun,

She made all matters easy.

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